Move schema objects, data, and code from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle with minimal downtime.
Oracle offers advanced partitioning, RAC clustering, and tighter integration with enterprise tooling. Teams needing high availability or vendor consolidation often migrate to Oracle.
Confirm version compatibility, validate character sets, list SQL Server features not supported in Oracle (e.g., IDENTITY, T-SQL specific functions), and estimate downtime for cut-over.
Use sqlpackage
or SSMS “Generate Scripts” to export CREATE TABLE, indexes, and constraints.
Map INT
➜ NUMBER(10)
, DATETIME
➜ TIMESTAMP
, NVARCHAR(MAX)
➜ CLOB
. Replace IDENTITY
with SEQUENCE + TRIGGER
.
Create a new migration project, connect to SQL Server via JDBC, auto-convert objects, and push data in parallel.
After creating an Oracle DATABASE LINK
to SQL Server via heterogeneous gateway, run INSERT /*+APPEND*/ INTO target SELECT * FROM source@dblink
.
See the next section for copy-and-paste commands.
The following script shows schema conversion and data load for Customers
, Orders
, and related tables.
Enable supplemental logging on SQL Server, use Oracle GoldenGate for CDC, run sanity checks, and schedule a read-only window for the final delta sync.
Skipping data type audits and ignoring collation differences cause silent truncation. See details below.
Yes. Use Oracle GoldenGate or SQL Developer’s online capture to replicate ongoing changes until cut-over.
No. Rewrite or auto-convert T-SQL procedures to PL/SQL using SQL Developer migration assistant.
Oracle SQL Developer and Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC are both free and cover most small-to-medium migrations.